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Codependent Poster posted:The characters making fun of you for exploring was funny as hell. Rocket's growing exasperation was a delight.
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Dawgstar posted:Rocket's growing exasperation was a delight. It was also an anxiety reliever for me, because I knew I wouldn't be locking off an extra area by accidently continuing down the main path. If Rocket was giving me poo poo, I was exploring the right way.
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https://twitter.com/CultureCrave/status/1573589802846281728?t=NyQ3yudz685ig__B_VCCUg&s=19 I firmly believe they were planning to until Avengers was a dud and threatened the rest of the Square Enix deal.
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Waffleman_ posted:https://twitter.com/CultureCrave/status/1573589802846281728?t=NyQ3yudz685ig__B_VCCUg&s=19 Well good then because a shared gaming universe wouldn’t be as good, much better to let each game be it’s own thing free of any other continuity
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I was just thinking about how hard a good IronMan game would be to make when I realized making it Saint's Row/Prototype and Tony's out fighting the Armor Wars probably is the best bet. Or maybe something in VR.
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I started playing the Avengers game because lol it's free might as well give it a shot. Honestly? I kind of like it. Would have never paid sixty bucks for it, but it's been fun in a brainless sort of way so far.
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Waffleman_ posted:https://twitter.com/CultureCrave/status/1573589802846281728?t=NyQ3yudz685ig__B_VCCUg&s=19 Wouldn't they have done something with Spider-Man then? He's in Avengers.
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Vandar posted:I started playing the Avengers game because lol it's free might as well give it a shot. The single player stuff is fine. It’s not $60 of content though.
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Vandar posted:I started playing the Avengers game because lol it's free might as well give it a shot. The single player story isn't bad at all! It's the grind fest postgame multiplayer that ruins it.
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Lobok posted:Wouldn't they have done something with Spider-Man then? He's in Avengers. Spider-Man took like a year to come out, so probably the writing was already on the wall.
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The Sega Iron Man game from the first and only set of MCU games wasn't good but it did have a cool mechanic kinda like the Crysis suit mode swapping where you were distributing power in your suit to the various subsystems, so you could have a bit of everything but not be amazing at it but if you needed big ranged power and the unibeam you had to shift all power to that but it took a bit of time to actually shift the power around. In a good game something like that could add a bit of friction and Stark like planning/improvisation to fights.
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thebardyspoon posted:In a good game something like that could add a bit of friction and Stark like planning/improvisation to fights. I don't want to sit around moving energy to my Dickstributor while playing.
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I find that a lot less interesting personally since basically every game does it but sure whatever. Not sure what's "improvisational" about selecting something in a menu while the game is paused either. To clarify, you didn't sit around, you pressed a direction on the d-pad and then the energy went where you selected it over a few seconds and your attacks, movement or whatever in that area got more powerful/forceful over that time. Sorta like directing energy to shields, engines or weapons in tie fighter/x-wing. thebardyspoon fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Sep 24, 2022 |
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FilthyImp posted:I was just thinking about how hard a good IronMan game would be to make when I realized making it Saint's Row/Prototype and Tony's out fighting the Armor Wars probably is the best bet. For how much the rest of it sucked, Anthem very much felt like you were playing Iron Man. So if they copy that and make a few tweaks there's already the foundation for building the rest of the game.
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Waffleman_ posted:Spider-Man took like a year to come out, so probably the writing was already on the wall. Yeah but it's not the kind of thing to just whip up quickly. If they had to do a course correction did they replace Yuri Lowenthal with a different VA? Never said anything about it being similar to the Insomniac version and said their costume would be classic, even before Avengers had come out. thebardyspoon posted:I find that a lot less interesting personally since basically every game does it but sure whatever. Not sure what's "improvisational" about selecting something in a menu while the game is paused either. Yeah when you mentioned that my mind went to TIE Fighter. You could essentially have access to all moves or modify your "build" on the fly but you would need to power down some things in order to power up other things. It could be a more proactive, overt decision-making version of the kind of thing that's in Spider-Man where your Focus meter can be used to heal you or do Finishers or keep your damage up. If you decide to do a Finisher you now have less Focus to use for healing. That said, FilthyImp is still right that this is an Iron Man game and so much of the appeal will be in switching, adjusting, and levelling up your suits like an RPG or Gran Turismo game so I imagine a lot of care will go into the player tinkering with the armour. You might be able to switch things during a fight but the bounds of your abilities and power will be from the suit you chose before the mission.
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I played the demo on the 360 and aside from like the Unibeam I really didn't see much of a difference that made the mechanic worthwhile. Maybe you got a few extra repulsor shots before cool down but that's a loving stupid way to structure combat anyway. It's just a lame excuse to add some meaningless complexity to a rote action title, in my opinion. Loadouts are pretty boringly generic, but they also let you have a better notion of customizability with how you play. The aforementioned Spider finishers and suit upgrades, really. An Iron Man game would have a shitload of suit greebles and skills and weapon options so you'll be poking around in menus anyway.
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FilthyImp posted:I played the demo on the 360 and aside from like the Unibeam I really didn't see much of a difference that made the mechanic worthwhile. Maybe you got a few extra repulsor shots before cool down but that's a loving stupid way to structure combat anyway. It's not meaningless complexity if it... has meaning. Combat systems typically have moves that you have to earn during a fight or that cost you somehow. It's not to annoy players for the sake of it but to demonstrate skill and thinking on your feet tactically. When it comes to menus, poking around in them is fun but that should be done in between fighting. This kind of thing is what you do during the fight.
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Yeah well I said it wasn't a good system in Iron Man in the original post didn't I, Crysis did it better but still not ideal. In my mind it's something like a mix of DMC style switching and Monster Hunter's style's/stances where you get to plan and think "ok in like, 7 seconds when I'm going to be doing the big third hit of my melee combo, I'm gonna want all my energy to be in my melee actuators so I'll put the energy there now while I'm diving into this crowd." Then doing that would make that third go from decent damage, little knockback to full, massive damage and huge knockback/stun on a big enemy that'd do a shockwave and knock everything else around and then while it's reeling from that you'd put the energy into your unibeam and be charging it up as the energy is going into it and the thing is recovering, it just starts charging at you as you finish charging and get that super satisfying, giffable laser blast that absolute devastates it like a true charged slash repelling a charging monster in Monster Hunter. To me the most iconic Iron Man stories/moments that you'd want to try and adapt the fantasy of are bits like his first big fight against the Hulk where he's using every trick in his suit and the environment to do everything he can to just slow him down and hit him, putting power into shields to take the hits and then into his weapons to trade back blows, his suit is gradually getting trashed and losing power and then when he thinks he's basically gotta give it everything or die he puts all his power into one punch which knocks him out but his suit is just done. Or stuff like him switching his priorities on the fly between zooming around shooting poo poo on the ground, trading blows with a big monster and outwitting some super scientist villain by hacking his science mcguffin while he's distracting him by being Tony Stark. Obviously I'm not gonna convince someone fully against it that the idea is great cause it's not been done amazingly in a game yet and yeah it could be poo poo but I think immediately trashing it, saying it'd just be meaningless complexity in a rote action game and THEN saying they'd definitely need to have loads of menu based skill trees and greebles and then it'd be a good game is a bit laughable. That's kinda one of the main things that makes every big open world RPG/action game feel so rote these days isn't it? I mean it absolutely would have that for sure and they could make that part good but I don't think that precludes having to make potentially interesting decisions in the midst of gameplay as well. thebardyspoon fucked around with this message at 20:38 on Sep 24, 2022 |
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Iron Man is like the one game where that system studios keeps using of mixing and matching a bunch of random gear pieces would actually work and be fun
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Lobok posted:It's not meaningless complexity if it... has meaning. thebardyspoon posted:In my mind it's something like a mix of DMC style switching and Monster Hunter's style's/stances ... quote:immediately trashing it, saying it'd just be meaningless complexity in a rote action game and THEN saying they'd definitely need to have loads of menu based skill trees and greebles and then it'd be a good game is a bit laughable. This is all hoping that the greebles don't become some insane Hall 5 poo poo where you grind for random loot box shoes and helmets, though....
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Speaking of the powers/mods system in Spider-Man, they need to be overhauled for the sequel if they're both coming back. The mods needed to be things that really affected playstyle more and for fewer to be passive boosts to defence. More slots would be better for playstyle mods as well so that the number of combinations is bigger and players can really have different styles or themes. More slots especially if maybe they decided to get rid of a powers system and roll those things into mods or make them special abilities you build up to in combat. The powers were wildly unbalanced with ones that were so OP compared to others, especially given that you earn powers over the course of the game and were rarely compelling enough to switch out the starting powers for. Check any survey of players' favourite powers and the vast majority pick the 2 given at the start or the end-game ones. There were several powers that would have worked far better as mods because then they would have been passive gameplay modifiers and not just hilariously short bits of extra fun. Like why would Low Gravity be on a cooldown instead of just something always on? The cooldowns themselves needed work because many of them had no reason to be as long as they were and the game didn't even communicate how long the different cooldowns even were. And the player had no way to shorten the cooldowns other than playing around with checkpoints. Usually in a game the player has some way to equip items or boost stats or do things in combat to shorten them but nope.
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Gotham Knights will take multiple playthroughs to see the whole story That's a very hyperbolic title for what's going on. quote:"We actually made four [stories], not just one!" said Mui. Ellenor followed up by saying that "You will not see all of it in a single playthrough. Just because there’s so much content that is unique to the hero’s perception of what’s going on and what’s happened." That said, I am kinda thinking about how you could kinda replicate the line-crossovers where the different characters have different side quests. similar to how there'd be a main crossover storyline and then the characters each have their own storyline that runs alongside it in their own book. But that'd actually be making four games, so, you know, I get it.
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Nobody will ever complete it since nobody will ever want to play as Jason Todd.
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Codependent Poster posted:Nobody will ever complete it since nobody will ever want to play as Jason Todd. I think I'll probably either do Nightwing first, then Batgirl, or bounce between them, and if those are different enough I might play Robin. But yeah, aside from that one guy who got perma'd a few years back I don't see a lot of Jason Todd playthoughs.
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Codependent Poster posted:Nobody will ever complete it since nobody will ever want to play as Jason Todd. Nah, DT is still out there
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I suspect the one played most will be whichever one is selected first in the menu. Will be interesting if there's achievements for finishing it as each character or they release stats a few weeks in and seeing who the least played is.
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thebardyspoon posted:I suspect the one played most will be whichever one is selected first in the menu. Will be interesting if there's achievements for finishing it as each character or they release stats a few weeks in and seeing who the least played is. I agree with this unless it's Batgirl because if there's one thing Baldur Gate 3's metrics have proved it's that if you put a woman as the default character gamers will go out of their way to pick the white man
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Can you switch characters during the game? I'd like to go between Nightwing and Batgirl.
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Codependent Poster posted:Can you switch characters during the game? I'd like to go between Nightwing and Batgirl. It sounded like you could do it level to level in the initial media.
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yeah if I get this, I'll play Babs. If it's fun I'll play as Dick, but only if there's a real difference in play styles or it's Spider-Man levels of fun will I bother with Tim or Jason.
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If Damian or Cassandra were in it I’d consider getting the game.
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CzarChasm posted:At least it's not Damien Tt
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Open Marriage Night posted:If or Cassandra were in it I’d consider getting the game.
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Open Marriage Night posted:If Damian or Cassandra were in it I’d consider getting the game. Yeah that would be at least 1, maybe 2 extra play throughs
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https://twitter.com/Gameonysus/status/1577813290918416385
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Christ. Is this for real? That feels like something that would happen in Sunset Overdrive, not
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